sabato 19 novembre 2016

Panini Futebol 2014

Panini Futebol 2013-14 is the official sticker collection of the Portuguese Premier League (Liga Zon Sagres) for the season 2013-14. The album opens with the foreword, table of contents, and the first sticker: the trophy of the competition.

Then the 16 clubs are shown in alphabetical order. For each team there are 21 stickers over two pages: the club badge, the team photo, the coach, and 18 players. The sticker of the club badge is a regular sticker and not a special sticker (metallic/shining) like in the previous album. Details about each player are printed on the album under the sticker space.

The last part of the album includes some special sections with stickers of players in action. The first section is "Panini Generation" with 9 regular stickers of young raising players: Cedric, Paulo Oliveira, Luis Martins, André Gomes (now a player of Barcelona), Jota, Josué, Rafa, Sturgeon, and Tomane. Then the three main Portuguese clubs (Benfica, Porto, Sporting Lisbon) have 9 sticker each of their stars. These are special metallic stickers of the players in action. Star players of the other clubs appear in the section "Liga Zon Sagres Stars". In this section there are 18 regular stickers of players in action. The last section of the album is "Portugal Stars" with 27 special metallic stickers displaced over three pages. These are action stickers of the best Portuguese players playing abroad (Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani, Moutinho, etc...).

The back cover of the album

Update set

This collection has a special update set composed by a short album (8 pages) and 54 update stickers of players that were not included in the regular album or they were transferred during the winter session of the market. The update album has the same size and cover picture of the regular album. The 54 update stickers have a larger size to include also details of the players. They are displaced over six pages following the alphabetical order of the teams, starting with the players not included in the regular album (Atualizaçao) and continuing with the players transferred in January (Aquisiçoes de Janeiro). In this update set we find some rookie stickers of well-known players (like Oblak and Joao Mario).

Rookie stickers of Jan Oblak (Benfica) and Joao Mario (Vitoria Setubal) included in the update set